In unrelated news....

Occupy Bristol have recently 'agreed to leave' College Green. The BBC coverage of the recent episode in the courts can be seen here. There is an onward link on that site to the occupy Bristol site which gives their side of things.

I will be glad to get the Green back.

(today also marked the first bike / treadmill full distance event followed by a very cold shower!)

Not 22k after all.

So I realised after completing 22k today (8.3 walking / 8.3 cross training / 5.4 bike) that actually only one of the days fell out of the reckoning.

This means that I only had 13k to make up.

Mission accomplished. Spreadsheet updated!

A Bristol sunrise for visual delight.

Strictly speaking....

I considered the challenge to start once I had decided to do it: on the 30th of December.

However, having had it brought to my attention, it does seem a little odd that it didn't coincide with the new year. So I'll be updating the spreadsheet to start from 2012 on the 1 Jan.

I'll just have to do a monster session on the weekend to make it up.


Thanks tony!

Going the distance.

Today was all about distance.

I now know I can do 20k on a bike, followed by 5k on my feet (albeit cross trainer). The rest is about time.

The importance of this, if you weren't already aware, is that these are the distances for a sprint triathlon - which is 750m / 20k / 5k.

I've updated the spreadsheet and it looks like 20(.12) weeks is doable for the challenge. I'll make that weeks in the country as we'll be hitting the slopes at some point.

Once an accountant.

So I decided that once a day was probably going to be a bit much. And I needed a way to track progress. So I now have a spreadsheet.

And stretching my use of technology that little bit further I have it in google docs - and it should be visible by clicking on this link >>> >>>click

There may need to be something to do with permissions, but I'll fix that as we go.

In the meantime, my 2012 challenge would, if carried out on the open road, get me from Bristol to the outskirts of Rome. Which is nice.

And for visual interest: a rarely seen view of the second Severn crossing.

Multi sports !

After an arduous day being good little consumers I managed to squeeze an hour in at the gym.

I Managed to clock up 17km (5k x-trainer, 10k bike and 2k rowing) and get home in time to explore the wonders of HDTV.

My 5k x-trainer time is coming down quite dramatically. Soon I'll be brave enough to try it on the treadmill.

A damp start to 2012

Today's 8.8km walk started in the dry, around 200m in the rain began to fall.

(1990.2 to go)

It didn't seem to deter the many walkers in Ashton Court out exercising their legs, children or pets. Quite muddy though.

Luckily the Clifton Sausage was open to provide sustenance for the final leg of the journey - on which we saw a graffito which made us chuckle and think of John.

My views on graffiti will be expanded upon in due course.